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Great blues/jazz organist Jimmy McGriff dies

He was 72.
Read more here: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-mcgriff27-2008may27,0,841800.story
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Here he is, bluesing it up, and talking about how to win over a crowd:

That was all the video of McGriff that I could find, but here he is on "The Worm." It's just a still photo of the album cover, so dated that it's kinda funny.

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